Newspaper Page Text
I Wm P'f SJ:: fcl ^,'vi !*'d] WEATHER CeNERALLY F*tB. TIIRTY-EIGHTH 1 YEAR. PEACE UkE MANTLE SETTLES OYER WAR STRICKEN BELGIUM' RACE TO FIRE THE LAST SHOT Tommy Atkins Can Hardly Realize End of War as Aviators Drop Down Messages to Fighting Men Army Lines Marked Only by Camp Fires (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) With the British Army in Belgium, (Monday) Nov. 11—Peace like a mantle descended over Belgium at 11 o'clock this morning. Almost coincident with the signing of the armistice the city of Mons capitulated. Th£ population of Mons today paraded through the streets, cheering madly their liberators. Early this morning a crisp graphic order to cease firing at 11 o'clock was distributed to all units with a further order to maintain defensive precautions and to have no intercourse with the enemy. Contest to Fire Last Shot The advance continued, the gunners racing forward, seeking the honor or firing1 the parting shot. Sharply at 11 clock the firing stopped. Fleets of British aviators dropped signal lights which descended with the mo mentous niessage to the troops be low. Tommy Atkins Dazed. Tommy Atkins was unable to re alize that the announcement was true. This afternoon the celebrations and' rejoicing were making the old town of J\Jons vibrate. Stenai Last Town With American Army on French Front, Monday, Nov. 11.—The last Frcnch tpwn to fall into the hands of the allies before peace was declared was Stenai. American troops rushed through the town at 10:45, finding it empty, and in a few moments allied flags made their appearance. As the church bells solemnly tolled the hour of 11, the 90th division filed into the town." The army lines are marked to night only by campfires. Except for the rumble of heavy trucks there is' nothing to indicate that two great armies face one another. The armis tice'has riot been violated in any re spect. Not even an accidental dis charge, of arms has occurred. Still In/Cellars The people of Stenai were still in their cellars, awaiting the bombard ment. The town is not badly damaged by shelifire, but according to the re maining inhabitants has been plund ered of everything of value. TUT Bismarck Banker .Saves Life by Driving Self to Hospital for Treatment The fact that Sen. C. W. McGray did not take water as a chaser prob aby saved his life Monday evening when by mistake' he took two five grain bichloride of mercury tablets for a head-ache. The Bismarck bank er promptly discovered his mistake, climbed into his car, drove to the Bis marck hospital and presented himself for treatment. Heroic treatment and the fact that the tablets had been ta ken dry, which delayed their ,solution, saved the life of the (patient,. who to day Is out of danger. Senator McGray. who is Furlelgh county chairman for the United War Drive, put in a busy day Monday. That evening he went home with a head ache. Without turning on a light, he reached into a medicine cabinet where he had some headacne tablets, helped himself to |wo pellets and swallowed them. A moment later he got a violent reaction- which con vinced him there had been a mistake. Investigating, he found tliat his "head ache" tablets had come from & bbt'tlb labeled bichloride of mercury, anjl which Mrs. McGray had used as a dis infectant while serving as a voluntary nurse during the flu edipeinic. The senator lost no more time, out jumped Into his car and broke all speed limits getting tb the hospital. ADVERTISES FOR WIFE TO BE AMBASSADRESS y. E. A. Special to The Tribune. AMSTERDAM. This advertisement, in the Frank furter Zeitung, doesn't sound as prom ising now as a few weeks ago: "Dip lomatic attache, in the highest posi tion, with great future prospects, tall,: good looking, 30 years old, free think er, healthy, belonging to the very first families, son of an excellency, is lboking for a life companion, uses a newspaper advertisement because there are no dances or dinners during the war. Lady must be frotn the best family, with a fortune permitting her to become the wife of a future German ambassador." ,• DISEASE TAKES BUT 50 TANKS ON OCEAN S. E. A. Special to the Tribune. Londen, England. About 50 deaths have occurred at sea from natural causes out of all the men Uncle Sam has sent across— close to two millions. This is the "statement of Brig. Gen. Francis A. Winter, chief surgeon of the Ameri can forces in England. General Win ner added that recently one convoy of American troops was. attacked by Spanis hinfluenza on the way to Eng land. There have been number of deaths from Influenza and pneumonia In English camps but this outbreak was confined to one Ccjnvoy and the ., situation is not "YANKS'HEED GREATER NOW THANIN WAR Correspondent With Pershing's Army Tells Why Fund Is Necessary ASSOCIATIONS MAKE GOOD! Soldier Boys Find Spiritual and Social Comfort at Hands of "Big Seven" BY C. C. LYON. N. E. A. Staff C'orrespomieii:. With Pershing's Army- ui France.-— Regardless of peace, there, is a big work for the organizations \wSiieh have been contributing lo the welfare of American soldiers in France. Two years will be re quired to bring all of the boys back to America. It may bo long er than that, for there is inu^h yet /to do in Europe. Therefore the'United War Work campaign, for $170,500,000 for the tl^esp organteatickn»ropeu. ing' today, will be pushed as vigor ously as though the war were still on. C, C. Lyon, stiff correspondent of' the Newspaper Enterprise associa tion with the army of General Pershing here tells of the activities of the relief organizations. The American people are being asked contribute $170,500,000 to carry on the. work of the Y. M. C. A., Knights of Columbus, Salvation Army, Y. W. C. A., Library association and other or ganizations doing welfare work among our soldiers. That's a lot of money. Is the work of these organizations worth the cost? For some time I've been studying very acrefully their activities, in order to be able to give the folks back home some real enlightenment, free from ex cessive praise or uncalled for "knocks." I was prompted to do this by a num ber of letters I've received from men and women in America. They're till doing a good work, and it is seldom that a knock is heard against any of them. The Knights of Columbus, for ex ample, specializes in good fellowship and the free distribution of cigarets, Cigars, chocolate,, etc., among the troops. The K. of C. secretary general is a big, jovial Irishman whq's had a lot of training in ward or city politics back home, and ho has brought to France with him a handshake and a manner of :talk that makes a hit with the doughb'ora CHANGE IN PEftHONNEL. The personnel of the Y. M. C. A. i^ rabidly changing in this respect. The fellows they're sending over now, for the most part, are real HE men, and the ranks have been pretty well clear ed of an element of cold, clammy. Ash es who hurried over in the first days of the war, intent solely on saving the souls of the doughbnrs. This type of worker wouldn't trust a doughboy for a nickel's worth of chewing gum the day before pay day, and he was always being Shocked speechless by the aver age doughboy's, fluency in profanity. Y. M. C. A. leaders discerned early in the game that the army doesn't want its soul saved, but, instead, it Wants plenty of smokes and chocolate, and movie shows, and vaudeville acts and writing paper. So, instead of scouring America for men who are full of inward pi&ty, they have been putting into the service now fellows with enough piqty to get by, but who aren't agraid to give away a truck load of candy or smokes once in a while. -, In a word, from being, at first, a rather ?old, unresponsive organization, the M. C. A. present personnel is making it cordial, real flesh and blood. DOUGHNUTS FROM LASSIES. The Salvation Army's specialty is doughnuts. My, what doughnuts those good women do make! That is, when they can get supplies. But in all France there are only about two score Salva tion huts, as against the 1,500 huts of the Y. M. C. A. with the American ar my, so the sum total of joy that the Salvation Army doughnut'makers can give an army of two million men is a drop in the boc^ket. With the various divisions constantly on the mpve, a sol dier has been lucky if he came across a Salvation but once in two weeks. The Y. W. C. A. confines its work to the thousands of American wom (Contlaued on Pace lBght) CONDITIONS IN GERMANY NEAR UPONANARCHY Deserted by Emperor, Who Has Fled to Holland, People Turn to United States MAY INTERN THE KAISER Reds Control Most Important In dustrial Centers of Teu ton Empire ARRIVED SUNDAY London. Nov. 12.—William Ho henzoilern arrived Sunday at Mfd datchen near Arnheim, according to a dispatch to the daily Ex press. An Amsterdam express says the former German empress is ill at Potsdam, and that the former German crown princess is at her bedside. ENTRY IS INGLORIOUS. Amsterdam, Nov. 12.—A great mystery still is being made of the destination in Holland of Wilhelm Hohenzoliern, former emperor of Germany. Three separate coun try seats now are named as his abode. The former emperor made an inglorious entry into Holland. At 10 o'clock Sunday morning ten automobiles driven by former Prussian officers were seen enter ing Holland through the fog. The erstwhile martial figure of the former einperor was huddled and bent over a walking stick, while the former war lord stared straight ahead. Dutch cyclists and military police formed a cord on about the party. Crowds of Belgian refugees assembled about the party crying "Assassin." When the train arrived at the station, William Hohenzoliern entered and changed to civilian clothes. Plans for the reception of the former emperor were made by the aid de camp of Queen Wilhel inina, who went to German head quarters last week. (By Associated Press) Defeated on the battlefield, deserted by their Emperor, and subjected to terms tantamount tp unconditional surrender, the German people have vail and them by crosing the Dutch frontier. old regime out of -ower seems to be (Continued on Page Two.) y. the votes ca3t. on at the BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA TUESDAY, NOV. 12, 1918. .rrflri^ont. .vDr .Wi S. SQ1Z AUSTRIAN KING a HAS ABDICATED SOCIALISTS RULE London, Nov. 12.—Emperor Charles of Austria has abdicated according to a Copenhagen dispatch quoting pri vate advises from yienna. Victor Ad ler, leader of the Austrian socialist, and foreign secretary in the German Austrian cabinet formed at Vienna on Octover-31 is dead It is reported a general strike will declared in Vi enaa tomorrow Effigy of Former Emperor Is Marched About City and Then Burned at the Stake CAPITAL HAS BIG DAY Everyone Rejoices in Triumph of Yanks—No Accidents Reported Here Ex-Kaiser Bill was present in per son to fittingly cap off Bismarck's Victory day celebration. His imperial nibs, crowned by a' real German hel met, with characteristic moustaches, and all of tho unbending dignity which has been associated with the former great military lord, with Wal ter W. McMahon, Frank Snyder Wil liam K. Markham as an escort, head ed a wildly enthusiastic parade which early Monday evening filed through tho streets, tho hotels and other pub lic places and finally wound up at the corner of Fourth and Broadway, where, while the Bismarck Elks' -band played and appropriate dirge, tho ma jesty that was Billhelm. slowly went up in smoke. The effigy-was a remarkably clever caricature of William Hohenzoliern, as he appeared in the role of command er in chief of the imperial German armies, before he became plain Bill Hohenzoliern, private citizen. The kaiser made his d^but with Frank Snyder walkiug in tfce loa^, holding a ropb which ended iitf a noose embrac- Conditions described as "fearful" pre- er side of the ka,lattI" ma^bed Messrs. McMahon and MnTkham. Soon a shout ing, hooting crowd had lined up, and a parade was formed After the kais* take stfep to overcome the danger. er had been duly exhibited, lie was .Sailors in Control strung up to a pole-at Broadway and the foreign' secretary says in his appeal that mil lions fade starvation if allies 4" not Mutinous sailoVs who are in con- Fourth, and a torch applied. The trql of .piitet of the units of the Ger- devil should toe given his dues, and many n^r* may risk battle against the must be admitted that the kaiser ajljied fleet rather than surrender un-1 burned welL- All that rem&ined of der the terms of the armistice. hii imperial highness r.'afior a very Some messages directed that the few minutes was the gan'metal, hei units assembled in Sassnitz Harbor on-Met, which today will be presented to the east coast of the Island of Ruegen the North Dakota State historical mu off the Prussian coast. Holland is said to be preparing to intern William Hohenzoliern and his son the former C^own Prince as well as other mili tary officers who sought refuge with seum. The helmet actually did belong to the kaiser, once upon a time. Theh Victor Elomgren, a former Bismarck letter carrier now serving over there a8 a Enter pardanelles met from a dead German who har This action may prevent the former stopped some of the Yanks' machine Emperor from returning to Germany should events take a sudden change.: Minnesota, indicate tnat state wiu is a nnrffi mincidnce in which was necessary to call a majority of satisfaction. 'v'T stretcher bearer, rescued the hel- gun £ire ThQ helmet was about all that was le{t of the hun Allied warships have entered the par- transportable and Blomgren carried it datielles and British naval forc®8 have his own lines and then dis occupied Alexandretta. (patched it to Frank Snyder, who Everywhere in Germany the momen- tum of the revolution which swept the gl with tbe plac jng ae IN DRY LIST that was it for last nlght 's glorious occa- intention of ultimately it }n the Btate hisorlcal mu- um, where it will henceforth pos sess a double interest for patriotic North Dakotans. '11-11-11" 'Twixt head-ache spasmsm superin duced by too early rising and over ex {citement, a Bismarck young woman found inspiration yesterday in the fact I that the close of the most tragic fchap- •i D..., Knv 12—Official and un- ter in tho world's history had come on The fact was mentioned last night in a group of celebrants, one of whom FIGHTING BREAKS OUT chanced to recall the fact that^a Amsterdam, Monday, Nov. 11.— month or two ago one Indian woman Fiehting broke out once more in Ber-' crossing from Mandan to BismarcK in lin on Sunday afternoon according to a Northern Pacific train after telling a message received here. It centers the lady whose seat she shared the around Schloss Square and was going contents of her purse and then per- time the dispatch was sent. Continued on Page Bight. THY CAME TO SUE FOR PEACE SEN.H.KAWINDERF£UD 3 ADMII^VL PWJLVONH1NTZ.E i£r MATTHIA5 ESZ.BER6ER Wmterfeld was former militarf attache in Paris, Hintse received Dewey's famous ultimatum at Manila that if firing en German ships ignoring the American blockade meant war he was ready to take the consequents. ISr*« berjer was the German most active in the conspiracy which involved Bolo Pash, the French traitor,.They came to Foch to-ask for an armistice. J. its LM*I 'I' GOYERNMENTOF GERMANY DID NOTHESITATE New Regime Signed Articles and Dispatched Messenger in Haste to Gen. Foch REDS NOW IN CONTROL Hindenburg at Grand Head* quarters Has Adhered to Socialistic Regime •Paris,' Nov. 12.—The new German government, it appears, considered the armistice terms at a sitting in Berlin late Sunday. Having decided to ac cept then), Berlin telegraphed to Spa, authorizing the delegates to fix their signatures. Tho courier reached the chateau at Frankfort at 2 a. m. and found the German plenipotentiaries awaiting them. They asked after they had read their instructions to see Marshal Foch, who was in his private car. Marshal Foch with Admiral Sir Roslyn Wysmess received them. A discussion which is described by tho Temps correspondence took place, sev eral points being debated, especially that point concerning the mainten ance of a German blockade. ALL RED. Copenhagen, Nov. 12.—Germany's new provisional government will be all red. The socialists ^definitely re fused to permit the bourgois to enter the new government. It is significant that the multitude of proclamations is sued are directed to "comrades" rath er than "citizens" and that reference no longer is made to the people's re public, but to the socialist republic. NOT IN HOLLAND. Amsterdam, Nov. 12.-r-Field Marsh al Von Hindenburg is not in Holland, says a dispatch frroni the Wollf bu reau. He remains at grand headquar ters and adheres to tbe new govern ment. It is, also officially declared that Crown Prince Ruppreclit has not fled. The entire German northern fleet and the Island base at Helgoland are in. tho hands of the German soldiers' committees. Men From 18 to 46 Do Not Need to Fill Out Questionnaires Already Received Washington, Nov. 12—Draft boards were ordered today to stop classify ing men under 19 or over 86 and to withhold questionnaires for su?h registrants not already sent out. It was said officially at the Provost Marshal General's office that regis trants of from 18 to 40 years of age who have received questionnaires need not fill them out. Formal orders will be issued soon. Cancellation of all draft calls and inductions yesterday probably has nul lified the work or fight order of last summer. The work or fight otder falls by reason of the fact that the only pen alty attached was that of being placed in class 1. With the call stopped the government has no power to penalize non-essential employment. Orders went out today to the heads of all military departments to discon tinue at once the acceptance for ad mission to central officers' training camps. No decision has been reached regarding the persons in the camps now. EX-KING FEKDTAND TO STUDY SCIENCE X. E. A. Special to The Tribune. PARIS.—According to a report from the Munich Neusete Nachricthen, ex King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has de cided to spend jhe rest of his days in the study of science. v. Wendelin Schwartz, a well known young farmer of Odense,' died! in a hospital hero. He was 35 years old an dis survived by a widow and fam ily of young children at Odense. STRICTRULES WILLGOYERN ARMISTICE No Relaxation of Vigilance While Peace Terms Are Discussed (By Associated rPess.) With the American Army iu France, Monday, Nov. 12.0rders announclnj ttye 'armistice^haS *been' 'teign&rf giving directions as to future conduct of allied soldiers along the line were 6ent to every corps this forning. It follows: 1. You are informed that hostili ties will cease on the whole front at 11 o'clock aj. m. November 11th, 191$,. Paris time. 2. iNo allied troops will pass the line reached by them at that hour and date until further order. 3. Division, commanders will im mediately sketch the location of their front line. This sketch will be re turned to headquarters 'by the cour rier bearing these orders. Severe Measures. 4. All communication with the en emy both before and after termination os hostilities is absolutely forbidden. In case of disobedience severest meas ures will be taken. Any officer of fending will be sent to headquarters under guard. G. Every emphasis will be laid on the fact that the arrangement is an armistice only and not a peace. 6. There must not be the slightest relaxation of vigilance. Troops must •be prepared at any moment for fur ther operations. 7. Special steps will be taken by all commanders to insure strictest discipline and that all troops be heltl in readiness. fully prepared for any eventuality. 8. Division and brigade iiommand ers will personally communicate these orders to all divisions. AGED RESIDENT OF HAZELTON IS INTERRED HERE Remains of Mrs. Peter Farrell Brought to Bismarck Last Evening The remains of Mrs. P. Farrell of Hazelton were brought to Bismarck on Monday following brief funeral rites at the home town of the deceas ed, and funeral services were held at 9 o'clock this morning at St. Mary's pro-cathedral and Internment was made in St. Mary's cemetery. Mrs. P. Farrell was one of the old est and best known residents of Haz elton, where she had resided for many years. She wa^ 72 years old and waB a widow, her husband's death having occurred two years ago. There sur vive the deceased four daughters— Mrs. W. B. Andurs, Misses Anna A and Lizzie A. Farrell, at home, and Mrs. Frank Lawler of Hazelton, and two sons—Charles and James Farrell. Mrs. Farrell contracted Spanish in fluent about ten days ago, and last Friday her long and useful life came to a close. There is general mourn ing among her many friends in ijazel ton. NATION TURNS TO WAYS OF PEACE AND CONJECTURE WHEN TROOPS WILL RETURN Not Known Where Parley Will Be Held—Some Soldiers to Go Overseas for Police and Medical Duty—No Mustering out From Cantonment^ Washington, Nov. 12.—America today turned .to the ways of peace. With the military power of the central governments shat tered, the United States with allied governments took up the task of reconstruction. Immediately ahead, however, diplomatic Washington saw the peace conference. When or where the final peace negotiations would be held officials would not conjecture. Thirty days is the time allowed under the armistice terms for the assembling of the peace conference. TWO NEW DEATHS FROM INFLUENZA Two new deaths were reported last night from Spanish Influenza. Mrs. Cecil Grogan, aged 28, and whose hus band is serving in France, passed away, leaving a baby Jjorn only a week ago and three other children. The deceased had made her home with her father, Capt. Kass, a river pi lot, near the Missouri landing. AY PRODUCE PASSENGER AUTOS Washington, Nov. 12.—Manufacture of passenger automobiles after Jan uary 1 is likely to continue^ and the consequent expected lessening of the steel demands. -s se&attifa noMatoi mm LAST EDITION No Immediate Mustering. The return home of nearly 2 1-1 million men overseas and the muster ing out of the 2 1-2 million men iu camps in this country will not come immediately. Tbe United States, en tering the war last, probably will bo called upon to do much of tbe po lice aud guard duty. Conditions la Russia are uncertain, and the small force there may need to be increased. The movement of troops abroad will not be stopped immediately, Socretaiy Baker announced, although the units probably will be medical and of aim* ilar divisions. Until peace is finally concluded there will be patrol work for tho navy the seas must be policed and swept of mines, and new bases estab lished. At home industrial reconstruction presents its great problems. War con. tract plants must be converted to make the commodities of peace. Workers engaged on such plants may be assimilated iu peace plans. Wage stmwittrds -of uiuetberreadjt»&t> ed to peace. The war industries board, the war labor board and Oth er industrial agencies must be con tinued or substitutes provided. The returned soldier must have work and a home. Other legislation making possible a return to a peace time basis will come before congress. MOVEMENT OF MENHALTED Entrainment Planned for Mon day Called Off at Last Moment The entrainment of all draftees was halted in North Dakota at 5:30 Mon day evening. Inasmuch as Adjutant eGneral Fraser had ordered held until that houj- the two special trains which were to have left Monday with select ice service men for Fort Winfield Scott, Calif., no men were moved from the state, and the drafcces who had been assemfbled at their county seats and other mobilization points were ordered to return to their homes. The adjutant general's office also has advice to the effect that no more questionaires will 'be mailed to regis trants over 36 years old. The first classes, including men of 19 and 21 and. of 32 to 3G inclusive, who al ready have received their question naires, will be physically examined as classified. Burleigh county today Is proceeding with the physical examination of 42 men. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES MEET HEAVY BURDENS Prompt Pament of Death Claims Reported by Provident of Bismarck In the past four or five weeks in which the epidemic of Spanish influ enza has swept over the country, life insurance companies have paid more in death claims as a result of this disease than has been paid since the outbreak of the war for war casual^ ties. The cases reported show that men in the prime of life and of the most robust health are those quickly strick en,down. The Provident life Insurance Co., of this city reports an added number of losses over normal, all of which are being properly adjusted and paid as soon as the proofs are received. This company recently paid to Mrs. John A. Wingate of Bismarck the sum of $3,000.00. representing the face of a policy taken out only a few months ago by her husband, and who died last week from influenza, result ing from the prevailing epidemic. COTTON"DROPS New York, Nov. 12.—Cotton drop ped $10 per bale in the market here today. Traders seemed unable to in terpret the gituatian in Its latioD to the tteiA-'tas 1 •'. PRICE FIVE CENTS X- Peace Conference. The great interests involved, tho many1 governments and nationalities Involved, may cause an extension of the 30-day limit. It was regarded as likely the peace couference would bo similar to the meeting at Versailles, where the armistice terms were de termined. The victors, meeting separ ately, probably will decide the terms, and the 'defeated then will be allowed to plead modifications. The military today looked to the -breaking up and return to civil life of lue great mill-, tary force mobilized in the last 1J* months. tjinieiiO 'A